Top 500 Ernest Hemingway Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

52. “The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.”

— Ernest Hemingway

53. “Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.”

— Ernest Hemingway

54. “Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.”

— Ernest Hemingway

55. “I drink to make other people more interesting.”

— Ernest Hemingway

56. “Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.”

— Ernest Hemingway

57. “All thinking men are atheists.”

— Ernest Hemingway

58. “I’m tired of everybody. Please forgive me.”

— Ernest Hemingway

59. “Man is not made for defeat.”

— Ernest Hemingway

60. “Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.”

— Ernest Hemingway

61. “Any man’s life, told truly, is a novel...”

— Ernest Hemingway

62. “Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.”

— Ernest Hemingway

63. “Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.”

— Ernest Hemingway

64. “The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.”

— Ernest Hemingway

65. “An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”

— Ernest Hemingway

66. “A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”

— Ernest Hemingway

67. “No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.”

— Ernest Hemingway

68. “There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.”

— Ernest Hemingway

69. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”

— Ernest Hemingway

70. “I am always in love.”

— Ernest Hemingway

71. “I never knew of a Morning in Africa when I woke up and was not happy.”

— Ernest Hemingway

72. “Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.”

— Ernest Hemingway

73. “You’re not a moron. You’re only a case of arrested development.”

— Ernest Hemingway

74. “About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

— Ernest Hemingway

75. ““And you’ll always love me, won’t you?” “Yes.” “And the rain won’t make any difference?” “No.””

— Ernest Hemingway

76. “Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.”

— Ernest Hemingway

77. “When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”

— Ernest Hemingway

78. “Strong in all the Broken Places.”

— Ernest Hemingway

79. “Easy writing makes hard reading.”

— Ernest Hemingway

80. “But life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose.”

— Ernest Hemingway

81. “Good writing is good conversation, only more so.”

— Ernest Hemingway

82. “My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.”

— Ernest Hemingway

83. “A man does not exist until he is drunk.”

— Ernest Hemingway

84. “It’s silly not to hope. It’s a sin he thought.”

— Ernest Hemingway

85. “Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.”

— Ernest Hemingway

86. “As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”

— Ernest Hemingway

87. “London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.”

— Ernest Hemingway

88. “Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.”

— Ernest Hemingway

89. “Most people never listen.”

— Ernest Hemingway

90. “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”

— Ernest Hemingway

91. “Every day above earth is a good day.”

— Ernest Hemingway

92. “No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.”

— Ernest Hemingway

93. “If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

94. “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.”

— Ernest Hemingway

95. “War is a crime. Ask the Infantry and ask the dead.”

— Ernest Hemingway

96. “The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.”

— Ernest Hemingway

97. “My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.”

— Ernest Hemingway

98. “Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.”

— Ernest Hemingway

99. “The shortest answer is doing the thing.”

— Ernest Hemingway

100. “I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.”

— Ernest Hemingway